Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Purple Positivity Vikings Talk"

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Brian

Marshall and the rock 108 morning show

rock what awaits in the morning show.

This guy hasn't been on the air with me probably since I would say back in the early 2010s.

He used to be a part timer here.

Now he's doing comedy.

I mean, he's, he's funny now.

I wasn't funny then.

Oh, great.

Shh.

Don't tell anybody.

Kevin Kellam.

Are you doing Brian?

How are you?

This is like running into your high school girlfriend.

I mean, like, Hey,

What are you doing?

I hope you're well.

Great.

Great.

You've aged.

That's what this feels like.

We also have a couple other guests because the whole thing about this is the comedy bar in Dubuque is holding a roast battle.

And you guys are going to be talking about this.

We got a couple other guests.

Kevin, would you introduce them for me, please?

Sure.

Coming in, these are the guys that built up roast battle Chicago.

We got a lot of people viewing on the internet because people like to see people feelings get hurt.

And that's what the whole show is.

Chris Greco is here with me.

He's the most Italian person I know.

He could slide across the floor.

That's how Italian is because he has olive garden.

Just olive oil just flowing out of his mouth.

Wow.

That's racist.

How are you, Kevin?

How you doing,

buddy?

What do cyclones play again, Matt?

You know, I clearly...

He means Iowa, the heart of Iowa.

That's where they're from.

But I'm originally from Mount Vernon.

I'm from Eastern Iowa.

So you get this.

You get the Rock 108 vibes here and everything like that.

I remember I was... Oh, the Pure Rock?

I remember you said that to me.

You were like, Pure Rock Rock.

I just listened to Smashing Pumpkins on my way to school growing up.

But yeah, so we do this wild show where comedians insult each other and then we put clips online and a lot of people see it.

Now they come and see it in Chicago and now we're kind of taking it on the road.

And then we're doing also full stand-up shows tonight at 8 p.m.

and Saturday at 8 p.m.

And then the late show on Saturday, seating for that at 9 30 is going to be the roast battle show.

And that's going to feature comedians from across the entire state line area by Iowa, Illinois, Chicago, Wisconsin, all that area.

So when a roast battle like this goes down and Matt and Chris, please chime in on this one.

Is there anything that's just too far outside of the realm on this?

Because I know some roasts can get really touchy.

Well, yes, it can.

It can get outside of the realm, and we are guaranteeing every audience member for every joke to do that.

That's what we're trying to do.

You know what I mean?

We don't want it to be nice.

We want it to be hurtful.

And that's why people pay the tickets.

That's why people pay the tickets.

Does it mean relationships get fractured?

Yes.

Does it mean that it ruins potential opportunities financially for us?

Certainly, but that's why we do it.

We do it for the people and you're going to see the county bar debut.

So Matt, as an Iowa guy going up to Dubuque and hanging out there, I mean, are you bringing some Iowa jokes?

Are you are you going to find a different way to get after it?

That's the only thing he has.

But yes, he is bringing his Iowa jokes.

Yeah, dude, I'm closing out both the shows Friday and Saturday and 100 percent.

It's going to be just an hour long of me pandering to the crowd shamelessly.

You know, I got it, I got into comedy to make regional humor for ever.

I'm at, and that's what I'm here to do a hundred percent.

I'm here to sell out.

And yeah, man, I love Dubuque.

I'm glad to be back.

I did it a while back.

Kevin Kellum, Matt Barnwart, Chris Greco, all joining us here on The Rock.

What a wait morning show.

The comedy bar Dubuque, the roast battle happening, and we'll get those times again one more time.

And

that was another thing and doing the roast battle stuff, or at least helping these guys produce it.

It was like.

Oh, I like that guy.

I am friends with them, but I would love to bust his, you know, chops on stage.

I almost said the thing I don't think I can say.

I have to remember that because in the show, we say everything.

There

is

nothing like everyone signs up for full contact.

This is a flight club.

Like that's that that was the fun of it.

And comics are like that.

And then audiences are there and they're like, you guys are OK with saying that.

Like, yeah, everyone signed up for this.

And we tell the comics like if you signed up for the show.

And you do this show and your feelings get hurt.

You agreed to do this.

You know what I mean?

Like you agreed to get verbally punched in the face because you're going to do it to someone else.

And if you want to see that, that's what our shows are.

That's what our stand-up shows are going to be.

The whole idea of you can't say something is the most ridiculous anti-American BS I've ever heard.

And that's what comedy is.

Even if you don't agree with it, you should still be able to laugh at it.

It doesn't matter who you voted for.

It doesn't matter where you come from.

Funny is funny.

And if everyone agrees to it, what's the problem?

Who's feelings are we really, really hurting?

Someone who says, you shouldn't be able to do that.

Everyone should just hug it out.

No, that isn't the world.

That's right.

Every time I make a ball joke against Kevin, I do it for America.

We've been talking comedy this morning and you think about roasts, you know, when you saw the roasts on Comedy Central and just how

how powerful they can get.

I've got three comics on with me today.

Former Rockwell O.A.

Jock, Kevin Kellum.

We've got Matt, Matt Barnwart, who's a former Iowa guy and now living in Chicago.

And then Chris Greco, Chris got a question for you.

Chris, when you, when you're putting together this roast battle, obviously in Chicago, you have so many different comedians stand up, improv and other to draw from.

When you're coming to Iowa, there's a little less of that.

So finding comedians that are from Iowa, from Wisconsin, that kind of stuff.

I mean, what do you got to do to get somebody to get into a roast battle like this in Iowa?

That's a great question.

You know, I think this is a question that Matt could speak to really well.

You know, Matt's from Iowa and he knows the scene.

You know, there's a lot of funny comics in Iowa.

A lot of Chicago comics come out to Iowa because of all the great opportunities for stand-up there and all the talent out there too.

So putting together the, putting together the show wasn't as difficult, wasn't that difficult just because there's a lot of great talent out there and they're ready to roast just like they are in Chicago, right, Matt?

Yeah, I mean a lot of the comedians in Iowa I started comedy first-ever stand-ups that I ever did was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at the old Penguins comedy club So yeah, I mean I'm from the area and I remember especially when I started and just working with the comedians on the list Comedians that are people that do stand-up comedy in Iowa are so passionate about it and so hungry about it I mean I used to drive from Ames to Cedar Rapids two hours on a Thursday and then two hours back and I was still in in college at the time

And I used to drive to Des Moines all the time.

So doing comedy in Iowa is a 5% comedy, 95% traveling.

These comedians are just so passionate, so wild, so hungry to get up on stage.

And when we got known and reached out and we're like, hey, we have this awesome show.

It's a roast battle.

You're going to say mean things to each other.

It's going to be funny.

We got great judges.

I mean, just immediately the comics were on board, you know, and honestly, doing comedy in Iowa half the time, all that it is is insulting each other.

So, so I think the comedians from the local comics, I think they're going to bring a lot of heat to the show.

I'm really excited to meet all of them.

Some of them I've seen before, a lot of new faces for me.

But everyone I've talked to, I said nothing but great things about the roasters on the 10 o'clock show.

So it should be a really good time.

Kevin, I got this question for you because you dealt with a lot of bands when you were here at Rock 108.

Can we tell the stain story?

Please.

Do you remember the stain story?

Do you remember what happened?

I want to hear your angle on it.

Please go ahead.

I remember your angle on it.

So, guys, when I'm working there, I'm a DJ there.

It's the first radio job.

We're amped.

We have stained, big rock band stained, playing like, I can't remember.

It was like a farming center we had in Waterloo, right?

Yeah, the

place.

The Macaroy Auditorium, but it's

been Macaroy Auditorium, which doubled as a farm show in the summer.

All right.

And everyone joked about that, that there was like cows and horses on the floor.

And here we are having a show with Cedar and Stain.

And we're going to do this big t-shirt toss out thing.

And the whole thing was like, we're waiting for the stage manager to tell us, I'm at the front of the line.

I'm told, when I hear go, go and get your ass all the way over to the other side of the stage quickly as you can to throw out t-shirts in front of 8,000 people who are jacked to see Stain go on stage.

And sing songs about men crying.

OK, so they're jacked for public male tears, right?

So I'm all jacked up and I just hear someone say go.

But it was somebody in the crew just saying, go, move out of the way.

I'm moving all this stuff.

I'm trying to get this ban on stage.

And I dart across the stage in front of 8000 people and I throw a T-shirt out and I turn and there's no one else from Rock 108.

All of us were supposed to go on stage at the same time.

I realize that I have ran out and interrupted the setup of

multi platinum rock band stained delaying them being on stage.

And then I sulked back to the corner of Brian's like, Hey, we'll handle this.

Kev Kev.

We'll have this.

We kind of have some street cred.

I remember you say that we kind of have some street cred around here.

We'll handle this.

It's okay.

But I'm really understood how bad I just mess this up.

Let me ask you.

This is

Kevin's apology

tour.

Kevin as a fan as a fan of stained myself.

Did they then dose you in monster energy and kick you off of the stage?

He says the word dart, but I really want to say it was more like you saying bolt doing the 40-yard dash.

He was just it was already where Kevin go.

Oh, he's out there on the stage.

Cool.

OK, this is fun.

You don't get in between a new metal band and their fans.

It's only going to result in violence.

I have my Ginkgo jeans.

I was ready.

You know what I mean?

I was on it.

I was amped up.

So, Kevin, real quick, give me the details one more time.

Comedy Bar in Dubuque.

Give it

to me.

Comedy Bar in Dubuque.

We will be there tonight, Friday at 8 p.m.

Saturday at 8 p.m.

Great stand-up shows with all three of us.

Matt, Headlining, Chris, Rico and I as well.

Saturday night, it's 9 30.

Get out there at 9 30.

We'll start the Rose Petal Show comedies from across Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois.

All going joke for joke, full battle.

full contact emotional hurting feelings and you'll laugh and we'll pick a winner and you'll see someone win.

You'll see a loser.

You get what you want.

You're paying for blood and it's funny.

Tyler Meyerhoff,

a alum of the Rock 108 Morning Show and a Waterloo comedian will also be at the roast battle.

Kevin, give me your social so people can follow you.

Yeah, you can follow

us at roast battle Chicago on Instagram.

We're on TikTok as well.

Podcasts, we have full battles up on YouTube if you want to see what we're doing, including an entire show we do with Jeff Ross, the Roastmaster General.

I did that show with this as well, and I got my head handed to me by someone who looks like Jennifer Coolidge.

So go watch it.

Matt, give me your social so people can follow you.

Yeah, I'm on social media at Matt M-A-T-T underscore BANORT-B-A-N-W-A-R-T.

Don't follow at Matt BANORT without the underscore because he's just some random guy in Arizona.

Chris, give me your

socials.

You got a chrisgrico.jpg on Instagram and at chrisgrico on Tiktok.

Gentlemen, I thank you so much for being a part of this.

Looking forward to having you guys back individually at some point.

Yeah.

So then Kevin doesn't have to step on the two of you guys.

Thank you

so much for having me.

The entire car right out there for the show today.

That's what this is

going

to be.

The Rock 108 Morning Show with Brian Marshall.

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Are you ready to do this?

How are you this morning?

Good morning.

Good sir.

So I know you're up against a clock because you've got to get into the, uh, to the gig today.

Yep.

Got to get into the big boy job.

So to speak,

right?

Big boy job.

I love it.

Just an extra from the purple positivity podcast returns.

So we lose to the Packers.

That was nasty.

And then beat the bears, which was nasty for the bears.

What's your takeaways from those two games?

Well, take away from the Packers game is it's over.

They're out of the playoffs.

We do not care about that.

We don't have to exercise that even they are done by positive take on that one.

The bears one, they did the Vikings did exactly what I had hoped and what most fans had hoped they took care of business and got away healthy.

Um, sat everyone in the second half got the win, which is

Nice.

You know, you hear the player, they say you want to win.

You don't want to go in on a two game losing streak, that kind of

thing.

But that winning that game did nothing for the seating.

Once you see all the other games play out, but you don't want to, it's kind of like a goalie, right?

You never want to see that puck go into your net because you're all that mentality there.

You don't want a losing mentality going into the playoffs.

Just an extra from the purple positivity podcast.

You can hear through his analogy using hockey terms.

This man is a true Minnesotan.

The beer belly sports network has the purple positivity podcast and it's, it's easily snackable in like what four to eight minutes segments, right?

I think the most I had was 10 minutes, but that was after the Buffalo game.

where it was just, I had no idea.

I think the first five or six minutes was just me going like trying to figure out what I'm even processing.

So it was like that was non-existent.

Like people could skip through that or whatever.

But sometimes I guess people like hearing you breathe heavily.

I don't

know.

You just call it people just to random.

Yeah, they're like, Hey, can you, can you just breathe into the phone because it's so hilarious or whatever.

I'm like, okay, yeah, sure.

So what are the Vikings have to do to beat the giants?

I know they've done it before.

Well, here's the thing.

They need to run the football.

That's the big one, right?

Cause I, I, running up the middle just is not working.

I don't know if they can get Alexander Madison and a delvin cook on the outside a little bit.

Some of that outside runs.

the Giants are susceptible to.

They've given up.

I think they're like 28th or 29th in the league against the run.

Obviously, regular season does not matter.

They played once.

They know what to do, what should be done.

They just got to open up some of those passing lanes by running the ball effectively.

And then, Justin Jefferson had himself a heck of a day, and so did P.J.

Hawkinson.

So last time, just if you can get the running game going, maybe they can salt this one away, which we know is probably not going to happen.

We're going to be in a one score game, but, but still what they got to do is get on top, get fast and then be able to run downhill.

Let's be honest.

As Vikings fans, we typically look at the playoffs and go, here

we go.

Are you feeling pretty positive?

I mean, obviously the host of the purple positivity podcast.

I mean, you can't be too negative, right?

Well, here's the thing.

Like I'm, I'm cautiously optimistic all the time.

Like that's the thing.

When it comes to Vikings playoffs, it's years different.

you have an opportunity here where you can exercise every single demon.

Every single playoff demon known to the Vikings except for the Atlanta Falcons.

Every team is there.

You can exercise it even right now.

Take out that 41 donut game just by winning this game right now.

You can just make people kind of forget about that.

Then let's say you go to Dallas.

You can exercise the Drew Pearson push-off.

Yes, it was a push-off.

It will always be a push-off.

You can exercise that and the beat down that they laid laid on you and then like let's say they get that far you got 49ers you can exercise that demon because they have they have not beaten them since the 1987 playoff and or the Eagles you can make the 38-7 you can exercise that even and So I'm thinking of it as they have an opportunity here where each and every game could be something where they can give

the fans like this sort of levity this sort of oh you know what I'm finally finally I can forgive myself like if you start looking at things that way your playoff experience is going to be much much better and oh yeah make sure you have your blood pressure medication

Justin Ekstrom, host of the purple positivity podcast.

He is a true Minnesotan.

Justin, how can they find the podcast?

Where can they find you on social media, please?

Obviously go to beer belly sports.

You can download that and you can have me.

I'm once a week.

You usually around Wednesdays or Thursdays.

I think the episode just dropped this morning.

You can follow me at purple, positive it T capital T at the end.

It's kind of weird.

Don't have a whole lot of followers or at the sports crib 21 on the Twitterverse.

So I know you got to get into work.

I appreciate you spending a few minutes on the rock.

What do I want to show to talk Vikings football?

Oh, I love it, man.

Love everything you do and school bikes.

The Rock 108 morning show with Brian Marshall.